Pet Battles: Leveling by Zone, October 12th Hotfixes

Continuing with our pet battle coverage, we'll be focusing on the leveling flow today, sorting each zone by their wild battle pet levels. Pet battle progression through zones roughly follows the same path you'd take questing, with a few minor deviations. Each zone in the tables below takes you to that zone's battle pet map, with a list of all the pets found in the zone and the pet locations marked on the map.

Here's some basics about capturing wild pets:

You can capture a wild battle pet when it is below 35%.

At 35%, you can use the Trap ability to attempt to capture the pet.

This takes up a turn and there is a chance it can miss--which diminishes with each failed capture.

You can only capture one companion pet when fighting a team of three wild pets. You must also win the battle to retain your captured pet!

Captured wild pets may have their level decay when captured (still much better than leveling one from scratch): Level 16-20 pets lose one level.

Level 21-25 pets lose 2 levels.

Click the cut to see our charts showing what level wild pets are in each zone!

October 12th Hotfixes

Blizzard

Ink traders no longer accept Blackfallow Ink. They now accept Ink of Dreams, and Starlight Ink has become available for purchase.

The Windsong and Elemental Force weapon enchantments can now be activated by periodic effects.

The Sha of Anger's respawn time has been greatly reduced.

Fishing in Shipwreck Debris is now more rewarding and will no longer sometimes provide an empty box.

Ancient Guo-Lai Caches can now be found in more varied locations within the Vale of Eternal Blossoms.

Classes

Death Knight

Death Strike now deals 7.5% less damage.

Death Siphon base damage has been increased by 50%, but it now scales less efficiently with attack power. This should result in an increase in damage for Frost and Unholy Death Knights, and a minor reduction in damage for Blood Death Knights benefitting from Vengeance.

Blood

Rune Strike now deals 8.5% less damage.

Heart Strike now deals 8.5% less damage.

Druid

Symbiosis

Paladins are now granted the following effects from Symbiosis based on talent specialization:

Protection - Rebirth

Holy - Rebirth

Retribution - Wrath

Hunter

Aimed Shot now deals 320% weapon damage (up from 280%), but the base damage component has been reduced by 65%. The damage that this ability does at level 90 should remain relatively unchanged.

Healing performed by Spirit Beasts summoned by the Stampede talent is now correctly reduced by 75%.

Rabid has been changed and now increases a pet's attack speed by 70%. Pet attack power is now unaffected by this ability.

Deterrence now correctly prevents the use of all three level 75 Hunter talents. Previously, Lynx Rush could still be used.

The root provided by Narrow Escape now correctly breaks on damage in a manner similar to other rooting effects.

Uplift can no longer refresh a Renewing Mist effect applied by another Monk.

The damage dealt by Chi Torpedo and Chi Burst is now correctly mitigated by abilities that reduce Area of Effect damage.

Rogue

Shroud of Concealment no longer affects vehicles.

Warrior

Fixed an issue that would prevent the stuns generated by Charge and Warbringer from causing diminishing returns with each other and with themselves.

Warlock

Rain of Fire now appropriately generates threat.

Warlocks are no longer subject to knockback effects while travelling through a Demonic Gateway.

Creatures

Water striders in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms now stride on water.

Slateskin Troublemakers now Shin Kick less frequently.

The following creatures can no longer be skinned: Belligerent Blossom, Cursed Jade, and Greenstone Terror.

Items

Recipe: Great Pandaren Banquet and Recipe: Pandaren Banquet can no longer be traded or sold on the auction house.

The Mogu Rune of Paralysis trinket's use effect now affects creatures appropriately.

The cooldowns of various on-use trinkets that provide dodge now interact correctly.

Kafa Press can no longer be used in Arenas.

Empty Grocery Containers are no longer unique, and can now stack in player inventory.

Crates of Archaeology Fragments are no longer unique.

Bottle of Infinite Stars will no longer be incorrectly awarded to Mistweaver Monks in Raid Finder raids.

The Sha of Anger will now provide loot appropriate to each Priest specialization.

The secondary stats provided by several Bind on Equip items from Pandaria have been changed.

Pet Battles

The visual effect for the pet Cyclone spell is now smaller.

Minfernals are no longer arboreal. Their new ground dwelling ways should make them easier to find.

Wild pets on the Veiled Stair will now be accompanied by friends into battle.

The Crimson Moth and Wharf Rat can now be found in the Pet Journal.

Several purchasable pets, the Golden Dragonhawk Hatchling, Red Dragonhawk Hatchling, and Silver Dragonhawk Hatchling, are no longer required for the achievement Eastern Kingdoms Safari. They will temporarily continue to be listed in the achievement criteria.

Various wild pets in the Vale of Eternal Blossoms are now easier to locate.

Quests

The event related to the quest "Battle Helm of the Thunder King" should now reset properly.

Players can now obtain the Order of the Cloud Serpent profession quests without knowing the associated professions. The professions will still be required to complete these quests.

All players attacking Lord Oona will now appropriately receive credit for "The Big Kah-Oona".

Commento di james44776

Commento di Naroku

cannot wait to give this a try, it really adds some diversity to the game ;)

Commento di Gorgaan

on 2012-10-13T11:20:50-05:00

can u make it possible to sort the list in either ascending or descending order by level? thx! very useful this :)!

Commento di QuickBASIC37

on 2012-10-13T11:36:28-05:00

While we're on the subject then, perhaps you could consider putting what levels pets are availible on the Pet Species text page. Strange to see all of them listed as Level 1... it would be nice for people to able to scan down the list of pets sorted by level and see what they're able to capture as they level their pets. Also, the default page being the "Gallery" view is obnoxious when the list view shows way more data.

Commento di Riojaa

on 2012-10-13T11:40:01-05:00

Nice guide guys.........keep up the good work!

Commento di daros

on 2012-10-13T11:56:01-05:00

Badlands is 13 not 23 ;-)

Commento di CarpeNoctum215

on 2012-10-13T12:09:35-05:00

It's worth mentioning all the pets I encountered in Winterspring were level 17 not 15.

Commento di Ragnarrokk

on 2012-10-13T12:41:52-05:00

I agree I hate having to hover over the pet on the ground to find its Level.

Commento di perculia

on 2012-10-13T12:44:54-05:00

We have the Gallery view showing first based on feedback from Transmog sets. People liked seeing the visual previews and browsing through the gallery to discover unfamiliar sets they might have skipped over with a listview. We thought with so many new models for wild pets, casual users might like to browse and see what catches their eye. But for people after specific things, the list view and the battle pet map are right there :)

We've made a few adjustments to the battle pet map in the last week or so, and plan to do more with things like levels. One of the bigger changes is putting a list of all the pets found in a zone on the righthand side of the map, as well as having the pet's name as a mouseover tooltip when you look at the map.

Commento di Namue

on 2012-10-13T13:44:41-05:00

This is awesome, thanks!

Commento di Interest

on 2012-10-13T13:51:26-05:00

Level 21-25 pets loess 2 levels.

Should fix that typo =P

Edit: Well I guess while this is still last post, might as well give some thoughts on the hotfixes this time...

Healing performed by Spirit Beasts summoned by the Stampede talent is now correctly reduced by 75%.

Change is completely justified. Should've probably been like this from the beginning.

Feng now casts Lightning Fists with appropriate frequency.

I really hope this is so. Once had a fight where he didn't use Lightning Fist for two straight Epicenters.

Commento di mishii

on 2012-10-13T23:49:45-05:00

There isn't a way to comment on the maps themselves, but you can find Cerbiatto in Teldrassil :D

Commento di QuickBASIC37

on 2012-10-14T03:47:53-05:00

IMHO transmog sets are a cosmetic feature, so gallery view is appropriate. While Battle Pets are cosmetic they have types, stats, movesets, etc and are much more complex than is currently displayed by the gallery view. (I'd certainly like a column in the text view that displays all six moves that pet as icons so I can hover them and see what they're able to do, etc).

Anyway, all IMO. Thanks the things that do make Wowhead great.

Commento di Interest

on 2012-10-14T09:13:52-05:00

Well I decided to do some pet battling today. I %^&*ed up the leveling path all sorts of ways (somehow getting through Felwood with 2 level 11s and a level 13 with no problems).

Commento di Interest

Commento di Warlinn

on 2012-10-15T02:44:48-05:00

Winterspring is lvl 17 not 13.

Commento di lukexxl

on 2012-10-16T03:23:27-05:00

desolance is 7-8 pet lvl

Commento di ruolan

on 2012-11-06T08:50:35-06:00

This is a great guide one which i use daily and have got some great Companions from doing so. However the last two days 5/11/12 & 6/11/12 the maps and details have not shown up at all they are just completely blank is it under update? or been removed?